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Daniel Tunnard

@Danieltunnard

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Buenos Aires

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Daniel Tunnard

5 months

Here's a long story. In March 2013, I’d just got back from taking the train to Rosario for the Miss Argentina Pageant when Josefina told me she wanted to have a baby. “Quiero un pibe” were her exact words, which is a weird way of saying it, but she’s country folk, so OK.

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1 year

@DanFJones72 In Argentina strangers call you things like skinny and father and daddy and, ahem, n*gro and son and maestro.

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5 months

Which novelist would begin their novel with a scene of two horses, one black, one white and blood-stained, running through the streets of London on a Wednesday morning in April? Feels Ian McEwany to me.

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@DanFJones72 Big fan of maestro

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5 months

As a Northern European immigrant in Buenos Aires, I am duty bound to express in a social media post my astonishment that the locals are wearing large coats and scarves when the temperature is a light-jacket and T-shirt 11 degrees celsius. This is that post.

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1 year

@Arbareales @DanFJones72 My wife calls me chino

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Daniel Tunnard

7 months

Cuando la gente me pregunte porqué volví a Argentina en lugar de quedarme en el primer mundo (sic) les voy a mostrar esta semana y pedirles que se imaginen seis meses así.

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5 months

American student has culture shock in Buenos Aires

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

God I love Buenos Aires

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4 years

@LalenaMa @papaspai No sé si hay un país que se haya obsesionado tanto con los Simpson como Argentina. Es para escribir una tesis.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

Had a lovely chat with a Venezuelan friend who lives in Rosario since 2017 about how lovely Argentina is. Interrupted by two old Argentine women complaining about Argentina.

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

Existe una profesión en el mundo que se autofelicita más que el periodismo argentino?

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

-Is there a doctor on this plane? -Yes, I am a doctor. -A medical doctor? -No, a lawyer. -A lawyer is not a doctor. -I am Argentine. In Argentina it is traditional to address lawyers as doctor. -Why? -I don't know. It is a peculiar convention. -Does this tweet have a punchline? -

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Daniel Tunnard

11 months

Articles about Buenos Aires often suggest that the high percentage of psychologists per capita is because the people are crazier than elsewhere, but there's a high percentage of bidets per capita but that doesn't mean the arses are dirtier than elsewhere, you know what I mean?

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Daniel Tunnard

10 months

Nearly 27 years after first setting foot in Buenos Aires, I (we) have bought an apartment here. It has two bidets, one of which has its own soap dish.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

Advance warning: when Argentina beat France on Sunday and the camera cuts to the French goalkeeper crying, I will tweet a photo of that with the words "No Lloris, for me Argentina" a context-dependent, bilingual pun that will garner a maximum of 3 likes.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

@cremetoursBA We're moving back to BsAs for some stability.

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

@rhodri Long time fan, first time poster. Moved back to UK from Argentina after 22 years and spending Christmas on an inflatable in the spare room OF MY OWN HOUSE as wife has covid. She's saving that wood as it might come in useful.

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Daniel Tunnard

6 months

Argentines go crazy for these sandwiches. They are called sandwiches de miga. What are they? Just bread with cheese and ham and stuff. Nice bread? Not really. Great cheese and ham? Tampoco. Do they taste nice? They're OK. The British mind cannot comprehend.

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

There's an oldish film cliché in which the insane nazi future president uses heavy metal for his campaign presentations, and us metallers said nah, we're the good guys, but now Argentina proves the world wrong.

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1 year

"Movistar Arena": Por el cierre de campaña de Javier Milei

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

Went into the chemist's. -Eebooprofeno, please. -Sorry? -Eebooprofeno? -I'm sorrry? -Eebooprofeno? It's a painkiller. -Ibuprofen? -Yes! My wife is Argentine. I have only ever heard the Spanish name.

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Daniel Tunnard

5 months

Ahem...

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

Are you British and did you read Saint Exupery's "The Little Prince" when you were little? It's something like the 4th-best selling book ever and but I get the impression that it isn't something British kids read, preferring books IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE. What say you?

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

@piojorabioso @DanFJones72 Y bien

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

Chau Argentina. Gracias por todo.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

Can't believe it's been 108 years since them slags assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Still does my nut in to this day.

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

@mili_dth @DanFJones72 Or a thing for transposing the tone of your guitar

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

Went to see the wonderful Argentina 1985 in the wonderful Cine Lorca.

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Daniel Tunnard

6 months

@brezhneviano Mi caribeñismo favorito es Jhon

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Daniel Tunnard

10 months

One of my favourite things aout Argentina is that Christmas begins on 24 December and ends, er, at midnight on 24 December.

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Daniel Tunnard

5 months

Our beloved president says in his book that he graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (he didn't) and the University of California (Which one? Doesn't say) just in case you were worrying about impostor syndrome.

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Ernesto Resnik

5 months

Realmente publicó y firma un libro en donde dice que tiene un título de la UBA y un Doctorado en la Universidad de California’, dos mentiras comprobables. Es un mitómano.

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

Saying this as someone who lived in Argentina for 22 years: it is quite amazing how nothing works in the UK. HMRC, NHS, airports, contractors. Hours on the phone. Hours queueing. This used to be better.

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Daniel Tunnard

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@merdgie La primera vez que fui a Sudamérica visité Curitiba porque la guía (1997) decía que era una ciudad "muy limpia".

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Daniel Tunnard

7 months

Creo que mi opinión más fuerte de BsAs es que los términos "Palermo Soho" y "Palermo Hollywood" son términos que solamente un pelotudo o un recién llegado usaría y que Palermo Viejo es el único término correcto.

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Daniel Tunnard

10 months

Latin American capitals, RANKED: 1. Buenos Aires 2. Montevideo 3. Quito 4. Mexico City 5. Bogotá 6. Lima 7. La Paz 8. Santiago 9. Sucre 10. Asunción 11. Panama City 12. Caracas 13. San José I haven't been to the others

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

Just admiring this camel

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Daniel Tunnard

3 months

JSO protestors arrive at Stonehenge to find that the 9" paint canisters they ordered are actually 9 feet high

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

#duvetknowitschristmas I'm not even scraping the top 500 this year. Double bed to myself at mum's (wife's in Argentina). In recognition of my privilege I've set up a direct debit with Shelter. I do have to go to church at 11pm, though.

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Daniel Tunnard

5 months

Then on 8 March, the 16th anniversary of when we met, Josefina did a pregnancy test because she thought she was menopausal (she’s very old). She isn’t menopausal. She’s pregnant. We’re having a baby girl in November. THE END.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

No Lloris for me Argentina

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

@badsci23 @DanFJones72 I was limited to 10,000 characters

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

When you move to Argentina, you soon come up against a frustrating bureaucratic process, and the locals say "Welcome to Argentina." When you move to England, they take you for a May Day picnic, 8°C, driving rain, and say "Welcome to England."

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

@ChinguriChi @DanFJones72 No

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

Moving back to Buenos Aires in 22 days. Looking forward to all the bidets.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 months

Eva at 24 weeks

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Daniel Tunnard

6 months

Saludos a mis nuevos seguidores. Vayan a cagar si votaron a Milei.

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Daniel Tunnard

7 months

Pleased with this translator's note: "While Spaniards swear by shitting in the milk and on the communion wafer, Argentines tend to curse the vaginas of female family members, and sometimes God’s."

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Daniel Tunnard

7 months

Dije seis meses? Quise decir toda tu puta vida.

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Daniel Tunnard

10 months

@estebanscu De hecho, la ciudad de BsAs tiene una tasa de homicidio de 2,9 (88 asesinatos en 2022, población 3 millones) lo cual la hace más segura que Zurich.

List of cities by homicide rate - Wikipedia

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Daniel Tunnard

1 month

It's that time of year at the end of winter in Buenos Aires I like to I call "second autumn" where it just rains a lot and is miserable, just before the start of spring. An English summer, if you will.

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Daniel Tunnard

5 months

@mattchesterton Going to do a whole standup show based around a stupid American with a stupid accent

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

@faculemac @DanFJones72 Had a dog called Tuerto. And Negra!

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

For the last 9 months, I have been rewatching all 180 episodes of Seinfeld to find out the answer to one very important question: which Seinfeld character had the most individual sexual partners?

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Daniel Tunnard

6 months

Bueno apagando las notificaciones, gracias a todos por los saludos

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Daniel Tunnard

5 months

Es importante aceptar que los argentinos somos un poquito racistas, no tanto como otros ni ahí, fijate que no tenemos un partido político abiertamente racista como en otros países, PERO que no vengan de otros países a decírnoslo, menos con las cateogorías "étnicas" de EEUU.

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

Re- Salt Bae bollocks: If you want a £630 pound steak, you can get a return flight to Buenos Aires for £500, then it's about £25 for the top-end steak, but you can probably find a decent one for £5 or less. This is my public service announcement.

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Daniel Tunnard

10 months

No hay nada como una semana en otra capital americana para reafirmar que Buenos Aires es la mejor del continente.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

From today and for the next year I am going to read only French. This is My Year of Reading Frenchly. This is Book 1.

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Daniel Tunnard

6 months

My biggest Argentinism is that I automatically say "provecho" when I see peopel eating. THIS ONLY TOOK ME 25 YEARS.

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Daniel Tunnard

5 months

Happy Thursday from here in Argentina, where yesterday was a bank holiday so today kind of feels like Monday? but also kind of feels like Friday is just around the corner? Pretty wild. Also I had a Clonoazepam last night and slept 8 hours. Today is the happiest day of my life.

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Daniel Tunnard

1 month

All the Oasis takes on UK twitter are about middle-aged coke head wankers and all the Oasis takes on Argentine twitter are young women saying oh I like this band I am happy hope I get tickets

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

One of the reasons we moved to the UK was because nothing works in Argentina so we said hey let's move to a country where stuff works. But no. Stuff works better in Argentina. Not all stuff, don't quote me.

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

Who had sex most in Seinfled? I did this as a blog ages ago but gave up after 30 episodes because no one read it, but this time...

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

@NoContextFBUK Quite a lot of context really

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Daniel Tunnard

4 years

The "first-world person who lives in Buenos Aires and actually likes it here" feature, repeated every 3 months or so, never fails to wind up loads of Argentines who really don't like anything. "I bet she's a Peronist!" "I bet she earns in euros!" "I bet she hasn't been to Chaco!"

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Daniel Tunnard

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@merdgie Iba a ir a Sao Paulo desde Rio pero unos israelies me dijeron "no, es una ciudad grande, muy aburrida." Sao Paulo! Al final estuve una semana en Asunción. PERO como me quedé sin lugares para visitar terminé en BsAs y conocí a mi futura 1ra esposa, asi que todo bien.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

How about simply *not* replacing a word in a film or song with another word, and leaving it as it is?

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

@NahuelDraws @DanFJones72 You have to be careful on twitter...

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Daniel Tunnard

4 years

@AstronautHeart I just had an urge to take off my underpants in such a way that no man in the vicinity could possibly see me naked, whilst balancing gingerly.

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@Danieltunnard

Daniel Tunnard

9 months

In 2012 I had an idea for a novel consisting of 48 short stories, taking place simultaneously in all 48 barrios of the city of Buenos Aires, a novel called 48. In 2024, the year I turn 48, I will finish writing this novel.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

The existence of the footballer Julián Alvarez implies the existence of a footballer called Jerónimo Salguero.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

Finally went to the Colón Theatre last night, 24 years after moving to Argentina. It was marvellous.

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Daniel Tunnard

11 months

@FreeganMormon After WW2, Nazis escaped to Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, the United States, Canada, Australia, Spain, Switzerland, USSR and the UK. So you'd have to look at those countries before making offensive comments.

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@Danieltunnard

Daniel Tunnard

5 months

Since announcing Josefina's pregnancy 200 mothers have offered their overjoyed welling up congratulations and four fathers have told me that my life as I know it is now over and to buckle down and this is it now.

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

@cosovschi "Se mudó a Inglaterra y el pan rallado le resulta muy caro."

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

I fucking love Buenos Aires. Why would somebody live here and then decide to move to Stockport? I just don't understand those people. Fucking wierdos.

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Daniel Tunnard

3 months

I am 4th in the Argentine Scrabble Nationals with 6 games to go today. It is usually at this stage that I choke and end up 25th. I've decided I'm not going to do that today. Going to finish top 5 like I said I would.

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Daniel Tunnard

1 month

I have a parrilla again

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Daniel Tunnard

1 month

Using arguable parameters, I am upper middle in Argentina and lower middle in England. This is fair, as in Argentina I own two bidets.

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Daniel Tunnard

9 months

I spend so much time on here telling the Brits and Americans how offensive it is that they equate Latin America with escaped Nazis and then this guy shows up.

@congresoperu

Congreso del Perú 🇵🇪

9 months

🎄El congresista Hitler Saavedra envía un cálido saludo para todos los hogares peruanos. ¡Feliz Navidad para todos!

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Daniel Tunnard

1 year

6 months ago I stopped having sugar in tea and coffee. I didn't lose weight. I didn't have more energy. I didn't feel cleverer. And my hot drinks were boring. So today, I started having sugar in tea and coffee. It's delicious.

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

@watsoncomedian Queen, hands down.

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Daniel Tunnard

10 months

Also there are no fucking Christmas songs

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@Danieltunnard

Daniel Tunnard

2 months

En 2010 fuimos de Bsas a Posadas en micro. Nos dieron cena con postre, luego el busmozo se puso unos guantes blancos y nos servio un digestivo, una Tia Maria autóctona. Cosas que perdimos.

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@Danieltunnard

Daniel Tunnard

2 months

I've done it. I have succeeded in getting my most mundane anecdote into print.

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The Fence Magazine

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One of our editors saw Rylan Clark buying a hammer in Islington, so we asked our readers for their most memorable, moreish and mundane celebrity encounters.

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Daniel Tunnard

10 months

@RobL_L I hope you're referring to the bidet.

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Daniel Tunnard

6 months

This Easter I have earned the respect and admiration of many Argentines by making a few choice remarks about one of their favourite foodstuffs

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Daniel Tunnard

6 months

Argentines go crazy for these sandwiches. They are called sandwiches de miga. What are they? Just bread with cheese and ham and stuff. Nice bread? Not really. Great cheese and ham? Tampoco. Do they taste nice? They're OK. The British mind cannot comprehend.

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Daniel Tunnard

11 months

6 semanas en Buenos Aires y ya me crucé con 5 o 6 conocidos en la calle. Esto no pasa en cualquier ciudad.

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Daniel Tunnard

3 years

@CasparSalmon In Argentina they call it "Saint Christopher's Little Table" (mesita de San Cristóbal), setting them apart from the rest of the Spanish-speaking world.

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Daniel Tunnard

4 months

Officiating at my niece's wedding in Italy in an hour. I feel like one of those children when they dress them up like an adult.

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Daniel Tunnard

6 months

Qué pasa que todos los cafés perteños pedorros pasan esta bossa nova falsa, covers de pop y rock anglo? Es la anti música.

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@Danieltunnard

Daniel Tunnard

4 years

Every year I force Josefina to accompany me to Liebig, 50km north of here, to have our annual family photo taken next to the corned beef monument. We weren't able to do this in 2020, but there's an outside chance travel restrictions will be lifted just in time. Pray for Liebig.

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Daniel Tunnard

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Una mujer inglesa recién preguntaba en TW si debería dejar que su hijo (8 años) se quede hasta las [checks note] 22 horas para ver la semifinal de Inglaterra o si debería mandarlo a dormir a las [checks notes again] 20 horas como siempre.

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Daniel Tunnard

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Those Buenos Aires seasons in full: November-April: Air conditioning April-May: Autumn but oh hang on 26C today June-July: Oh shit it's cold, oh hang on, 26C today August: Second autumn September: Spring but you have to wear a jacket October: T-shirt and shorts spring

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Daniel Tunnard

6 months

I have been interviewed about the weather in Buenos Aires, in my capacity as an English person.

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Karina Niebla

6 months

No estamos listos para tanta lluvia. No porque seamos quejosos y queramos cancelar todo al primer chaparrón (igual sí), sino por la falta de preparación a nivel obras, diseño, mantenimiento y, ahora también, servicio meteorológico. Mi Escala Humana de hoy:

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Daniel Tunnard

2 years

"El monte" is a tricky word to translate into English. It isn't always "the woods/forest". It certainly isn't a mountain. It's the bush, but that sounds too Australian. Forget outback. The countryside is too bucolic. The thicket, odd. The wilds?

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Daniel Tunnard

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You'll all be proud to learn that I am now ranked 6th in Argentine Scrabble- THE HARDEST SCRABBLE THERE IS - with an Elo of 2409. 2409!

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3 years

MS Word: I see you're highlighting some text... ME: Yes, just this line here... MS Word: YOU WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE WHOLE TEXT? ME: No, just this line and half the next line, I can do this... MS WORD: You want to highlight TWO LINES? ME: No, just... MS WORD: DELETE WHOLE TEXT

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1 month

@ThisIsTomLittle Counterpoint:

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Daniel Tunnard

5 months

It's all kicking off on the Disused Stations page on Facebook

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5 months

Estoy muy tentado de hacer un video parodia de culture shock de yanqui en BsAs pero me parece que la gente no entiende parodia...

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